The Cecil Whig., 1887-05-14

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dry.
Nearly halt hundred carrier pigeons
were brought To this place from PhlladeI'
phia on Thursday morning and released al
the depot.
The dwelling house occupied by Wilmer
Bouchelle on the property OF Lewis Miller,
near [ nion church, was burned on Friday
afternoon of last week
MIR. John Lungren, the well-known
driver of the Lewisville and Elkton stage,
appeared this week in a handsome new
turnout. MIR. Collins, of Cherry Hill, was
the maker.
Joseph Underhill, n colored man, was
arrested on Sunday last, charged with
stealing gilling net from Robert y. Mitch
ell on the "Old Bay" shore. He was sent
to Bel Air Jail.
There will be services in the Preshy ter
ian church tomorrow, (Sabbath) by the
pastor, Rev. X. w. Beers. Subject in the
morning, "Independeuce, and i'll the even
ing ''rhe First Female Preacher" All are
| welcome.
| If you wish to promote your personal
comfort during the approaching heated
term, by keeping yourself, as we'll AS your
| house cool, the quick meal vapor stove Is
the appliance you should use. 1t is per-
feet stove for this plrpose. Notice Messrs.
b. c. Bibb Il Sons new advertisement of it
in this issue OF THE WING.
We have always been in the habit of
going TO Boston for baked beans but We're
not aware that that famous city SO noted
| for its brains, also furnished bones for fer
tilizing purposes, until President Frank Il.
Scott, of the Scott Fertilizer Company, i'll
formed us in a conversation the other day,
that that is the place where they get their
supply.
-Shockley & Smith, as auctioneer for
Hope II. Barrol assignee of mortgage on
Thursday morning sold atpublic sale AZ the
Court House door the property known AS
the Etherington farm, situated in the First
election district near Cecil. The farm con-
tains 11S acres, and was purchased by the
Parvis & Williams Fertilizer Company for
81, 900, subject to mortgage of $4,000.
Read Mark Leberman's new talk"
about spring clothes. He has just received
the fullest assortment ever offered i'll Elk
ton. 1t is really astonishing what Il small
amount of money will buy an entire suit of
genteel clothes. We don't believe mems,
boys and chldrens clothing WAS ever as
cheap. Lieberman keeps a full line-as
well hats, caps and furnishing goods.
The ECLIPSE" is the name of fine
shoe made by Gallaher, Kitselman " Fox
of Wilmington. 1t is rapidly taking the
lead in the market as the best kid shoe to
be had tor the price. We are glad to know
this, because Mr.. Gallaher is IA Cecil county
young man who is now the head of a pros
porous manufactory, and we always well
come the success of Cecil county bows.
a SIX you: shoe dealer for the "Eclpse' and
give it at least trial.
What looks like an attempt at highway
robbery is reported by Mr.. John Benz tmin
Tyson of Bay View. Mr.. Tyson while
driving home in passing through some
wood land took stranger who had requested
lift, in his team. Tue man had a basket
in his hand which he left in the rear of the
wagon. The stranger becoming insulting
and quarrelsome Mr.. Tyson knocked him
out into the roadway. Two other strange
men shortly jumped out of the bushes and
caught at his horses heads. He succeeded
| in getting away from them. He afterwards
found two loaded revolvers and a shril
whistle in the basket.
Mr.. Francis ID. Talley, of Wilmington,
the contractor who remodeled the Cecil
| county Court House and is now engaged in
| putting up Beers new hotel in Wilmington,
met with a serious accident on Monday
last. In conjunction with several work
men, lie was removing large pane of plate
| glass from the front of the building now
| being demolished. One corner of the pane
sruck in the frame and finally broke off and
fell upon Mr. Talley's head. cutting deep
cash and causing the blood to flow freely.
His head was sewed up, and he is now
again able to work, but feels weak from the
| shock and loss of blood.
On Tuesday Messrs. A. Leo Knott,
Second Assistant Postmaster General, 7. L
| Nash, general superintendent railway ser
vice, and Il. g. jackson, division supern-
tendent of railway mail service, went over
the Philadelphia Division of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to Philadelphia. They
went in a special Car with Major Milo V.
Bailey, of the railroad company, to look
into the advisabllity of establishing mail
service on that route. The people along
the road are anxious for postal facilities,
which would be an important convenience
for them. To the railroad company the
pay would be nothing direct, but it is stated
that Indirectly the establishment of mail
service would be of advantage to it.
1t was an interesting family group that
an Elkton photographer faced with his ca
mera on Tuesday. Mr.. Jacob Dean and
wife. who reside on a farm near Red Mill,
about a mile from Elkton, with their twelve
children We're photographed while sitting
ON the porch of their residence. The family
has been very fortunate and rather remark
able in that, not single one of its mem bsrs
has died. OF Mr.. Dean 5 children all but
one resides in Cecil county. Elwood G.
Dean resides in Wilmington. The other
members of the family are William F.,
John b., George E, and Isaac NJ, all far.
mers. James f. is popular young mer-
chant of Elkton, and is assisted in his store
! by Andrew ID. Sarah is the wife of Wm.
Campbell. Jacob L., Jr., Harry o., and
Misses Maggie and Martha reside with their
parents.
A special to Baltimore daily from
| Havre de Grace, published on Thursday
states that the Susquehanna river at that
place presents the appearance of early
spring, being very high, having risen consid
erably in the last twent y-four hours, and a
strong current brings down immense guam
titles of debris which floats in between the
wharves and along tine shores, causing grea,
annoyance to the fishermen and watermcn
generally. Very few fish caught Oh
Tuesday night by the gillers, and the floats
too did very little. Some shad We're brought
from the eastern side on Wednesday. BE
tween two and three thousand shad wert
disposed of this morning at from Sl2 to ST.
per hundred. Messrs. Coale II Bailey whose
float is at Garretts Island and W. H. Ewins
4 Sons float up the river cut out on Wed
nesday morning.
"A numbe of Elkton Masons attended
the celebration of the centennial of the
Wednesday and Thursday of this week